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Embracing pharmacological complexity

Blackburne, Piot, Kamboj, Das

Nature Mental Health

Development and validation of a short-form (6-item) version of the clinician-administered dissociative states scale (CADSS-SF)

Taujanskaite, Kamboj

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

Protocol for a qualitative mechanistic study of MDMA with a sample of psychoanalytic psychotherapists: A phenomenological investigation

Liberati, Curran, Fonagy, ..., Kamboj

PLoS One

Provision of safer smoking equipment to reduce health harms and enhance service engagement among people who use crack: a realist informed review

Piot, Sharpe, Vuckovic, ..., Harris

International Journal of Drug Policy

Exploring fMRI-neurofeedback to reduce craving-related brain activity in people with cannabis use disorder: a feasibility study

Murphy, Poudel, Dakhili, ..., Kamboj, ..., Lorenzetti

Addictive Behaviors

Speech markers of psychological change following a psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT retreat

Kuc, McAlpine, Sellers, ..., Skipper

Journal of Psychopharmacology

A mindfulness-based intervention to reduce altered brain reward function in cannabis use disorder: a double-blind, active and passive, randomised controlled fMRI trial

Beyer, Skumlien, Poudel, ..., Kamboj, ..., Lorenzetti

Psychopharmacology

How to set up a psychedelic study: unique considerations for research involving human participants

Glennon, Bird, Yadav, ..., Bhat

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Digital Intervention for Psychedelic Preparation (DIPP): protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial comparing meditation- and music-based programmes in healthy volunteers

McAlpine, Jaglinska, Jedlovszky, ..., Kamboj

BMJ Open

Synaptic correlates of benzodiazepine tolerance

Piot, Jovanovic

Molecular Psychiatry

Neurofeedback training facilitates awareness and enhances emotional well-being associated with real-world meditation practice: a 7-T MRI study

Ganesan, Van Dam, Kamboj, ..., Zalesky

Mindfulness

Brain activation and connectivity after 2–3 weeks of escitalopram administration in anxiety disorders: a randomised trial

Lukow, Lowther, Pike, ..., Gormley, ..., Robinson

Journal of Affective Disorders

Brief mindfulness intervention for adults with cannabis use disorder: a randomised clinical trial

Lorenzetti, McTavish, Thomson, ..., Kamboj, Manning

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

CannChange: a protocol for a feasibility study using fMRI-based neurofeedback to change the neurobiology of craving in cannabis use disorder

Murphy, Dakhili, Ganesan, ..., Kamboj, ..., Lorenzetti

BMJ Open

Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT

Blackburne, McAlpine, Fabus, ..., Skipper

Cell Reports

The induction of dissociative states: a meta-analysis

Brake, Wieder, Hughes, ..., Kamboj, ..., Terhune

Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science

Perceived coercion amongst healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Stoltenberg, Ranieri, Dahlen, ..., Kamboj

Scientific Reports

Examining memory reconsolidation as a mechanism of nitrous oxide's antidepressant action

Williams, Taujanskaite, Kamboj, Murphy, Harmer

Neuropsychopharmacology

Strategies for resolving challenging psychedelic experiences: insights from a mixed-methods study

Wood, McAlpine, Kamboj

Scientific Reports

Understanding the influence of suicide bereavement on the cognitive availability of suicide: qualitative interview study of UK adults

Jones, Quayle, Kamboj, Di Simplicio, Pitman

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Perceived changes in mental health and social engagement attributed to a single psychedelic experience in autistic adults: results from an online survey

Stroud, Rice, Orsini, ..., Kamboj

Psychopharmacology

Amygdala activity after subchronic escitalopram administration in healthy volunteers: a pharmaco-functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Lukow, Lowther, Pike, ..., Gormley, ..., Robinson

Journal of Psychopharmacology

Independent replications reveal anterior and posterior cingulate cortex activation underlying state anxiety-attenuated face encoding

Buehler, Lowther, Lukow, ..., Gormley, ..., Robinson

Communications Psychology

Pandemic lockdowns: who feels coerced and why? A study on perceived coercion, perceived pressures and procedural justice during the UK COVID-19 lockdowns

Ranieri, Gordon, Kamboj, Edwards

BMC Public Health

Development of a digital intervention for psychedelic preparation (DIPP)

McAlpine, Sacchet, Simonsson, ..., Kamboj

Scientific Reports

Development and psychometric validation of a novel scale for measuring 'psychedelic preparedness'

McAlpine, Blackburne, Kamboj

Scientific Reports

The effects of paranoia and dopamine on perception of cohesion and conspiracy: a pre-registered, double-blind, placebo-controlled experiment

Raihani, Kamboj, Peniket, ..., Bell

Psychopharmacology

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) for the treatment of anxiety disorders: preclinical and clinical evidence

Inserra, Piot, De Gregorio, Gobbi

CNS Drugs

Do mindfulness-based interventions change brain function in people with substance dependence? A systematic review of the fMRI evidence

Lorenzetti, Gaillard, Beyer, ..., Kamboj, ..., Gleeson

BMC Psychiatry

A bioelectronic route to compassion: rationale and study protocol for combining transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) with compassionate mental imagery

Kamboj, Peniket, Simeonov

PLoS One

The challenge of memory destabilisation: from prediction error to prior expectations and biomarkers

Milton, Das, Merlo

Brain Research Bulletin

Meditation trips: a thematic analysis of the combined naturalistic use of psychedelics with meditation practices

Azmoodeh, Thomas, Kamboj

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

A systematic review of the pharmacological modulation of autobiographical memory specificity

Cawley, Piazza, Das, Kamboj

Frontiers in Psychology

Accelerated forgetting of a trauma-like event in healthy men and women after a single dose of hydrocortisone

Hennessy, Troebinger, Iskandar, Das, Kamboj

Translational Psychiatry

The CannTeen Study: cannabis use disorder, depression, anxiety, and psychotic-like symptoms in adolescent and adult cannabis users and age-matched controls

Lawn, Mokrysz, Lees, ..., Das, ..., Curran

Journal of Psychopharmacology

The effects of response inhibition training following binge memory retrieval in young adults binge eaters: a randomised-controlled experimental study

Das, Cawley, Simeonov, ..., Kamboj

Scientific Reports

Pharmacological modelling of dissociation and psychosis: an evaluation of the CADSS and PSI during nitrous oxide-induced anomalous states

Piazza, Iskandar, Hennessy, ..., Das, Kamboj

Psychopharmacology

Rewarding subjective effects of the NMDAR antagonist nitrous oxide are moderated by impulsivity and depressive symptoms in healthy volunteers

Kamboj, Zhao, Troebinger, ..., Das

International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology

Stimulating meditation: a pre-registered randomised controlled experiment combining a single dose of modafinil with brief mindfulness training

Thomas, Freeman, Poplutz, ..., Kamboj

Journal of Psychopharmacology

Association between a directly translated cognitive measure of negative bias and self-reported psychiatric symptoms

Daniel-Watanabe, McLaughlin, Gormley, Robinson

Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

An assessment of rapamycin for weakening binge-eating memories via reconsolidation: a pre-registered, double-blind randomised placebo-controlled experimental study

Walsh, Iskandar, Kamboj, Das

Psychological Medicine

The role of self-compassion and self-criticism in binge eating behaviour

Serpell, Amey, Kamboj

Appetite

Post-traumatic stress disorder in victims of sexual assault with pre-assault substance consumption: a systematic review

Gong, Kamboj, Curran

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Compassionate faces: evidence for distinctive facial expressions associated with specific prosocial motivations

Falconer, Lobmaier, Christoforou, Kamboj, ..., Brewin

PLoS One

Modulation of naturalistic maladaptive memories using behavioural and pharmacological reconsolidation-interfering strategies: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Walsh, Das, Saladin, Kamboj

Psychopharmacology

Nitrous oxide may interfere with the reconsolidation of drinking memories in hazardous drinkers in a prediction-error-dependent manner

Das, Walsh, Hannaford, Lazzarino, Kamboj

European Neuropsychopharmacology

Additive effects of MDMA and compassionate imagery on self-compassion in recreational users of ecstasy

Kamboj, Walldén, Falconer, ..., Freeman

Mindfulness

Cannabidiol reverses attentional bias to cigarette cues in a human experimental model of tobacco withdrawal

Hindocha, Freeman, Grabski, ..., Das, ..., Curran

Addiction

The effects of cannabidiol on impulsivity and memory during abstinence in cigarette dependent smokers

Hindocha, Freeman, Grabski, ..., Das, ..., Curran

Scientific Reports

Which biological and self-report measures of cannabis use predict cannabis dependency and acute psychotic-like effects?

Curran, Hindocha, Morgan, ..., Das, Freeman

Psychological Medicine

Non-dependent and dependent daily cannabis users differ in mental health but not prospective memory ability

Braidwood, Mansell, Waldron, ..., Kamboj, Curran

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Changes in cannabis potency and first-time admissions to drug treatment: a 16-year study in the Netherlands

Freeman, van der Pol, Kuijpers, ..., Das, ..., Lynskey

Psychological Medicine

A prediction error-driven retrieval procedure for destabilizing and rewriting maladaptive reward memories in hazardous drinkers

Das, Gale, Hennessy, Kamboj

Journal of Visualized Experiments

The acute effects of a dopamine D3 receptor preferring agonist on motivation for cigarettes in dependent and occasional cigarette smokers

Lawn, Freeman, East, ..., Das, ..., Curran

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Ultra-brief mindfulness training reduces alcohol consumption in at-risk drinkers: a randomized double-blind active-controlled experiment

Kamboj, Irez, Serfaty, ..., Freeman

International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology

Behavioral and pharmacological strategies for weakening maladaptive reward memories: a new approach to treating a core disease mechanism in tobacco use disorder

Kamboj, Das

JAMA Psychiatry

The subjective response to nitrous oxide is a potential pharmaco-endophenotype for alcohol use disorder: a preliminary study with heavy drinkers

Walsh, Das, Kamboj

International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology

Mindfulness, acceptance and defusion strategies in smokers: a systematic review of laboratory studies

Serfaty, Gale, Beadman, Froeliger, Kamboj

Mindfulness

The impact of perspective change as a cognitive reappraisal strategy on affect: a systematic review

Wallace-Hadrill, Kamboj

Frontiers in Psychology

Acute and chronic effects of cannabinoids on effort-related decision-making and reward learning: an evaluation of the cannabis 'amotivational' hypotheses

Lawn, Freeman, Pope, ..., Das, ..., Curran

Psychopharmacology

Bringing together pharmacological and psychological approaches to mental health research

Moss, Curran, Bloomfield, Kamboj, ..., Freeman

The Lancet Psychiatry

Processing of alcohol-related health threat in at-risk drinkers: an online study of gender-related self-affirmation effects

Kamboj, Place, Barton, ..., Harris

Alcohol and Alcoholism

A comparison of emotion regulation strategies in response to craving cognitions: effects on smoking behaviour, craving and affect in dependent smokers

Beadman, Das, Freeman, ..., Kamboj

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Recreational MDMA or 'ecstasy' and self-focused compassion: preliminary steps in the development of a therapeutic psychopharmacology of contemplative practices

Kamboj, Kilford, Minchin, ..., Freeman

Journal of Psychopharmacology

Assessing the translational feasibility of pharmacological drug memory reconsolidation blockade with memantine in quitting smokers

Das, Hindocha, Freeman, ..., Kamboj

Psychopharmacology

Rewriting the valuation and salience of alcohol-related stimuli via memory reconsolidation

Das, Lawn, Kamboj

Translational Psychiatry

Prospective memory impairments in heavy social drinkers are partially overcome by future event simulation

Platt, Kamboj, Italiano, Rendell, Curran

Psychopharmacology

The effects of cognitive reappraisal following retrieval-procedures designed to destabilize alcohol memories in high-risk drinkers

Hon, Das, Kamboj

Psychopharmacology

Associations between cigarette smoking and cannabis dependence: a longitudinal study of young cannabis users in the United Kingdom

Hindocha, Shaban, Freeman, Das, ..., Curran

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

A specific association between facial disgust recognition and estradiol levels in naturally cycling women

Kamboj, Krol, Curran

PLoS One

The effects of nicotine dependence and acute abstinence on the processing of drug and non-drug rewards

Lawn, Freeman, Hindocha, ..., Das, ..., Curran

Psychopharmacology

Dopamine, urges to smoke, and the relative salience of drug versus non-drug reward

Freeman, Das, Kamboj, Curran

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Effects of immediate-release opioid on memory functioning: a randomized-controlled study in patients receiving sustained-release opioids

Kamboj, Conroy, Tookman, ..., Curran

European Journal of Pain

Just say 'know': how do cannabinoid concentrations influence users' estimates of cannabis potency and the amount they roll in joints?

Freeman, Morgan, Hindocha, ..., Das, Curran

Addiction

Voluntary and involuntary emotional memory following an analogue traumatic stressor: the differential effects of communality in men and women

Kamboj, Oldfield, Loewenberger, ..., Brewin

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Breastfeeding experience differentially impacts recognition of happiness and anger in mothers

Krol, Kamboj, Curran, Grossmann

Scientific Reports

Acute effects of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, cannabidiol and their combination on facial emotion recognition: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study in cannabis users

Hindocha, Freeman, Schafer, ..., Das, ..., Curran

European Neuropsychopharmacology

Experimental single-session imagery rescripting of distressing memories in bowel/bladder-control anxiety: a case series

Pajak, Kamboj

Frontiers in Psychiatry